Bless This Food

by Adrian Butash

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385311060
• ISBN13: 9780385311069
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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This book is a little masterpiece, a unique collection of thanksgiving blessings gathered with a scholar's insight and poet's love for the beauty of language. In it the author illustrates how expressing thanks for food is mankind's first act of worship, and examines the two mysterious blessings Jesus spoke at the Last Supper. He also reveals the essential role the food blessing occupies in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

superb table graces, plus excellent historical backgroundd.

This book should be in every home. A brilliant collection of graces and blessings from around the world, encompasing ancient and contemporary graces across major religions and enthnicities. A+++.